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Although an increasing number of people are becoming aware of the threats to women , children and the gay community, I’m really beginning to wonder if we are getting anywhere in this fight. Gender ideology is so deeply entrenched in virtually every institution and there are so many supposedly intelligent people who cannot see or who refuse to see the threats. People like Billy Bragg have watched women and gay people fighting for their rights for decades. He apparently stood beside us in the struggles, yet he now spouts he most offensive and vile abuse. How can these people not see that that they are now standing alongside the most misogynistic and homophobic people in decades , who are putting children in such danger. A cursory look at John Money and Queer Theory should alert people to what’s going on… shouldn’t it?

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Mar 20, 2023·edited Mar 20, 2023Liked by JL

Re. Oxfam. I don't think a poor Somali woman, with undernourished child has the luxury of worrying about pronouns. All this stuff is indulgent, narcissistic, degenerate white middle class nonsense. It is like Rome in it's final orgiastic days.

And frankly it is racist. Most cultures that Oxfam works with are religious with traditional views on sex, family etc. They will find this stuff offensive. And in strict Muslim countries, heretical with all that entails. Surely Oxfam for the efficacy of it's operations and safety of it's field workers should be sensitive to local cultures and not force their weird philosophy on them.

My father worked with the Colonial Education Service in Kenya 1958 - 1963. He was required to (1) learn Swahili and (2) learn about local religions and sensibilities (He was examined - his only on-line presence is in the Kenyan Gazette from 1959 stating he had passed his intermediate Swahili exam). So teaching at an Islamic School he had to work with traditional parents with regard to the girl pupils. For for example he took 30 students on a 6 week 'safari' around East Africa. The parents of the 3 girls who wanted to come were worried about their 'honour' and would not give permission for these girls to go on the trip. My father suggested that each girl be chaperoned by a 'respectable, married woman' which they agreed to. One these was my mum, and I aged 3 and sister 6 weeks came along for the ride. If he had been a woke warrior (ooh just realised this word is probably banned in the guide) in tune with Oxfam's guide, no doubt he would have been happy to let a 'transwomen' be a chaperone. Or perhaps a 'transgirl' sleep in the girls quarters. It would have caused a riot, he would have been sacked and sent back to the UK! And the 3 girls and many others would have been withdrawn from education.

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If I put on a poncho and sombrero I’d be accused of cultural appropriation, if I black my face and sing “Mammy” I’d probably be arrested for racism, but why is it ok for a man to dress up as a sexualised parody of a woman? I find the whole idea of drag queens insulting and offensive.

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Mar 20, 2023·edited Mar 20, 2023Liked by JL

feel sick. Re athletics, make the men’s categories open, it won’t effect men at all.

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Will donate again, Graham has done so much, he does not deserve this ****. Really enjoyed recent interview with fellow cancelled, Laurence Fox. The best. Warm, relaxed and honest with humour

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So much still to be done.

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In regards to men that take stuff to reduce their testosterone so they can compete with women……

what a load of absolute bullshit.

An elite athlete is so committed to their sport, its not a ‘hobby’ or an ‘interest’. Its their life and they sacrifice many things to be the best they can be.

A trans identifying man is willing to take stuff to reduce his performance so he qualifies to compete against women.

What a load of disingenuous wankers. I do loads of long distance running and do the best i can within the parameters of the sacrifices i am willing to make (not many).

I am not elite, i am good, thats ok. Good is fine. Trans identifying men are not elite, female athletes and amateur female athletes deserve the right to compete on an equal playing field with other women.

If world athletics fuck this up, another series needs to be formed.

Make the men’s category open.

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I couldn't read it all. It's too depressing. What the fvck is wrong with people? With society? How can violent men (or any man) be houses in the female estate? Why are girls' teams who object to playing against men being denied a chance to play at all? How the fvck can a school allow boys to behave violently and abusively toward the girls? How can women and girls feel safe today? Why the fvck is it being allowed? I feel intense rage. Nobody should be surprised if a type of citizens' militia forms in various places to start taking matters into their own hands. What is going on in the psyche of societies across the globe today? As far as I know it's only Africa that is resisting this Borg cult.

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"Glinner of Hope". Has been for me, that's for sure. Such a warrior. And along the way, he's still manages to make us laugh -- doesn't get any braver than that. Thank you again and again Graham.

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All of this is so sickeningly awful that many would refuse to believe it.

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Thanks as ever, JL . What a list of horror stories! Re the Italian MALE athlete 'Valentina' Petrillo, and his reference to his detractors being Nazis and like Hitler, apart from that being baseless, ridiculous and nonsense, it always really annoys me because it seems to me to amount to an insult to the memory of the victims of the Holocaust!

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Some of this week's events are very hard to bear. Who the hell placed Kardashian in a women's prison? It's an obscenity. I've donated again to Graham's fundraiser - it's so close to the target now.

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If you follow Oxfam’s logic it should eat itself. An organisation set up and perpetuated by white saviours. It’s so un-PC. It should cancel

Itself.

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Thanks for putting these stories together. If this whole post was included in a main stream newspaper it would be so powerful in peaking ordinary people. Your work needs a bigger audience, JL.

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This is a universally gloomy set of reports, our Graham. Thank God that you followed it up with a more propitious bunch of news! Thank you for all you do for us. And the Times article on you was pretty fair-handed, I think. What do you think?

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Thanks you JL and Glinner for publishing the 4W story on Swiss girls below 14 undergoing double mastectomies. Our country's press barely picked up the story. Transactivists still pretend kids are not being operated on (I went to an event last night, targetting autistic youth and they repeated that no one is getting surgery before 18, that everything is reversible, including blockers).

Sending you hugs from Queerzerland.

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